From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:33:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1481158879.26959.41.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <20161208101005.6ufl3d4qvwprosju@phenom.ffwll.local> <20161208140210.rfyjf2265flsfpfj@phenom.ffwll.local> <20161208153735.74d7d350@free-electrons.com> <20161208152134.wnv4j4i6m5xpoycp@phenom.ffwll.local> <1481232877.26959.52.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <1481234249.26959.55.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <20161209083442.peoriqsto2llvl2t@phenom.ffwll.local> <1481283856.27965.11.camel@kernel.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <1481283856.27965.11.camel@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , Linux Fbdev development list , Teddy Wang , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , DRI Development , Tomi Valkeinen , Sudip Mukherjee , Arnaud Patard Hi Ben, On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> So it is possible, only reason vram dumb buffers look worse is that there's >> only 3 and no one cares about them, vs about 20 and a very active community >> of contributors (also for core drm improvements) for the other case. > > Well, we could move offb to drm while at it I suppose that would be another > one (offb is the "dumb driver based on pre-programmed output by firmware). That would indeed be a great example. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds